 Crossing Over to Canaan: The Journey of New Teachers in Diverse Classroomsreviewed by Marshall George - 2002  Title: Crossing Over to Canaan: The Journey of New Teachers in Diverse Classrooms
Author(s): Gloria Ladson-Billings Publisher: John Wiley, New York ISBN: 0787950017, Pages: 192, Year: 2001 Search for book at Amazon.com A well-known teacher educator at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Gloria Ladsen-Billings, author of The Dreamkeepers (Jossey-Bass, 1997) has again written about the need to prepare pre-service teachers to meet the needs of an ever-growing diverse population in our nation’s public schools. This is a book of stories: stories of the author’s journey as a teacher and teacher educator, and stories of the journeys of a group of her teacher education students. In telling these stories, Ladson-Billings advocates an approach to teaching that focuses on a blending of academics, culture, and social justice. In Crossing Over to Canaan, Gloria Ladson-Billings describes the experiences of a cohort of eight female teacher education students in the Teach for Diversity (TDF) Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Using a biblical metaphor that compares the struggles of these eight novice teachers to that of Old Testament figure Joshua, the author attempts to chronicle the experiences of these eight young women as they face the challenges of teaching in culturally diverse urban schools. Near... (preview truncated at 150 words.) To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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